MCP Word Counter

A Model Context Protocol server that provides tools for analyzing text documents, including counting words and characters. This server helps LLMs perform text analysis tasks by exposing simple document statistics functionality.

Features

Count words in documents
Count total characters (including spaces)
Count characters excluding spaces
Process files directly without exposing content to LLMs

Installation

npm install mcp-wordcounter

Usage

As a CLI tool

npx mcp-wordcounter

In Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-wordcounter": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-wordcounter"],
      "alwaysAllow": ["analyze_text"]
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

analyze_text

Counts words and characters in a text document.

Parameters:

filePath (string, required): Path to the text file to analyze

Returns:

Word count
Character count (including spaces)
Character count (excluding spaces)

Example response:

{
  "content": [{
    "type": "text",
    "text": "Analysis Results:\n• Word count: 150\n• Character count (including spaces): 842\n• Character count (excluding spaces): 702"
  }]
}

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

# Run in watch mode during development
npm run watch

# Test with MCP Inspector
npm run inspector

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

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security – no known vulnerabilities

license - permissive license

quality - confirmed to work

local-only server

The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.

Tools

analyze_text

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Features

Installation

Usage

As a CLI tool

In Claude Desktop

Available Tools

analyze_text

Development

License

Contributing

Tools

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